SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a high-stakes battle for dominance in artificial intelligence technology, major semiconductor manufacturers are racing to develop HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory chips crucial for advanced AI processors. The competition intensified on March 18 when Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, announced at the company’s GTC 2025 developer conference [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are entering the competitive field of AI reasoning models, following the global excitement sparked by DeepSeek’s breakthrough R1 model. Upstage, a South Korean AI startup, plans to release its reasoning-focused AI model in the latter half of 2025, according to industry sources. This follows LG AI Research’s March [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary schools in South Korea are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) digital textbooks at higher rates compared to middle and high schools, according to new data. Education authorities plan to inform provincial education offices and schools about additional application methods for the second semester this week, aiming to increase AI textbook usage [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will showcase its latest home appliances driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and unveil its vision for hyper-personalized smart living next week, industry sources said Thursday. At the “Welcome to Bespoke AI” event scheduled for Wednesday, Samsung Electronics will introduce Home AI, an advanced ecosystem that integrates [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will promote its artificial intelligence (AI) and future mobility solutions at a Japanese exhibition set to open next month, a trade promotion agency said Tuesday. Expo 2025 Osaka is scheduled to open April 13 on Yumeshima, an artificial island on Osaka Bay, and run for six months [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A pilot program implementing artificial intelligence monitoring on LG Electronics’ employee shuttle buses has led to significant improvements in driver safety, according to findings released today by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority. The three-month trial, conducted from September to November last year on 14 long-distance shuttle buses serving LG Electronics’ Changwon [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Networks Co., an information technology (IT) solutions unit under SK Group, said Tuesday it has partnered with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) business portfolio. As a first step, Qualcomm will provide SK Networks with its high-performance Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, including Qualcomm Dragonwing [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, LG Uplus announced a partnership with Google’s Gemini AI, marking the final piece of South Korea’s major telecom companies unveiling their strategic AI alliances. With this move, SK Telecom has aligned with Anthropic and Perplexity, KT has partnered with Microsoft, and LG Uplus [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading South Korean electronics component manufacturers are bouncing back from the global IT slowdown by focusing on high-value products driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. LG Innotek and Samsung Electro-Mechanics, which achieved record sales last year despite profitability challenges, are now poised for a significant turnaround. According to market consensus [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co. said Wednesday that it has partnered with France-based automation and energy management company Schneider Electric as part of its strategies to secure technologies for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers through global collaborations. On the sidelines of the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona, Spain, [...]